The Marine room of the Peabody Museum of Salem . •VOLUSIA OF SALEM WRECKED ON CAPE CODPainting by M. F. Corne, CLIPPER SHIP -WITCH OF THE WAVE OF SALEM, 1851 Witch of the Wave, ship, of Salem, built by George Raynes atPortsmouth, N. H., 1851, 1498 tons. Large oil painting. C. Also, a photograph of another paint-ing which was destroyed in the Salem fire of June, 1914. Thetrip of this clipper ship from Portsmouth to Salem to obtainher register was enjoyed by a party of two hundred guests ofthe owners, — Capt. John Bertram and Mr. Alfred Peabody, —who were entertained with music, feasting
The Marine room of the Peabody Museum of Salem . •VOLUSIA OF SALEM WRECKED ON CAPE CODPainting by M. F. Corne, CLIPPER SHIP -WITCH OF THE WAVE OF SALEM, 1851 Witch of the Wave, ship, of Salem, built by George Raynes atPortsmouth, N. H., 1851, 1498 tons. Large oil painting. C. Also, a photograph of another paint-ing which was destroyed in the Salem fire of June, 1914. Thetrip of this clipper ship from Portsmouth to Salem to obtainher register was enjoyed by a party of two hundred guests ofthe owners, — Capt. John Bertram and Mr. Alfred Peabody, —who were entertained with music, feasting and the recitationof an original poem by Jonathan Nichols. [See Salem papersof the date and Clark, The Clipper Ship Era, pp. 166-172.]The Witch of the Wave, Captain Joseph Hardy Millett of Salem,in 1852, with a cargo of tea, made the remarkably short passageof ninety days from Canton to Deal, England. Zaine, hermaphrodite brig, of Salem, built at Dorchester, Maryland,1840, 158 tons. Oil painting. Zotoff, bark, of Salem, built at Newbury, Mass., 1840, 220 tons. Copy by M. Macpherson in water-color of original
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